Rupert Murdoch personally ordered The Sun to print naked Prince Harry pics

[Newsjock]

Source: The Independent (UK)

An angry Rupert Murdoch ordered The Sun to publish pictures of a naked Prince Harry against the wishes of the Royal Family because he wanted to send a warning shot to Lord Justice Leveson, sources said yesterday.

The owner of the red-top phoned the News International chief executive Tom Mockridge from New York on Thursday amid suggestions that The Sun and other papers did not carry the photos for fear of recriminations in the Leveson report.

When the images emerged on Wednesday, St James's Palace asked the Press Complaints Commission to tell editors it did not want them published, and all British papers abided by the request on Thursday. But on Friday, The Sun carried a picture of a naked Prince Harry, taken during a game of strip pool in his hotel suite in Las Vegas last weekend, raising questions over why the paper changed its stance.

News International has refused to comment on speculation that Mr Murdoch intervened. But according to a well-placed source, Mr Murdoch told Mr Mockridge in his transatlantic phone call on Thursday: "There is a principle here. I know this is about Leveson but this is humiliating. We can't carry on like this. We should run them, do it and say to Leveson, we are doing it for press freedom."

Read more: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/press/angry-murdoch-used-harry-photos-to-defy-leveson-8081427.html

[spanone]

1. murdoch should be banned from publishing for life...he's one toxic mo-fo

[Frustratedlady]

3. Well, one thing is for sure...no one will retaliate

by publishing nude photos of Murdoch!

[smirkymonkey]

6. That image just made me throw up in my mouth a little.

Could there be anything more hideous than a naked Rupert Murdoch? I am sure his wife gets well paid for it.

r

[railsback]

2. Not exactly something you do

in the middle of a serious phone hacking scandal, where your employees are being carted off to jail.

[Kalidurga]

4. Yeah, I don't care that Murdock did this.

He has done a whole lot worse. This is actually somewhat amusing. But, it's kind of a so what as well. I don't care the little prince was naked. I don't care the pictures were published. Who is the royal family to tell anyone to publish or not to publish a picture. If the little prince didn't want that picture out he shouldn't have been publicly naked. It's pretty simple, he had the means to make that private and didn't so there you go. If he was a regular person it wouldn't have made the news and the prince has to know this as well. If you are famous there are things you do that will get attention even if other people do them and don't get attention. It sucks, but those are the facts of life.

[NV Whino]

8. Well, he wasn't publicly naked

He was naked in his private room. If his royalness wants ro play strip poker (or strip anything) in the privacy of his room, it's his business. I would like to know who took the photos in the first place. I call it an invasion of privacy and Murdock's "newspaper" a rag.

[Kalidurga]

11. Oh then never mind.

Murdock should be hung, not til dead, just til very uncomfortable.

[Joe the Revelator]

5. I agree with Murdock here....who's the royal family to tell the press what to print?

[2pooped2pop]

7. true. And the fact that it pisses off the royals

is a nice bonus for me.

Your move Queenie! Off with his head!

[monmouth]

9. It has also made Prince Harry more popular than ever..n/t

[Lint Head]

10. Rupert 'the pervert' Murdoch should be in prison!